News Environment Large python swallows 77-pound deer, stunning researchers with the size of its mouth Researchers found a 14.8-foot 115-pound python consuming a 77-pound deer near Naples.

When python researchers Ian Bartoszek and Ian Easterling tracked a male “scout snake” with a radio transmitter, they expected him to lead them to a big female Burmese python. What they found ...

"If a python is capable of eating three deer in three months," he marvels, then it clearly raises serious questions about the pythons' impact on the Everglades ecosystem.

An invasive Burmese python's eyes were a little bigger than its stomach when it decided to devour a white-tailed deer fawn.

Burmese python caught swallowing full-sized deer proves the invasive snakes are eating bigger native prey in Florida, study says.

WATCH: Burmese python swallows 77-pound white-tailed deer Florida’s invasive snakes can eat bigger prey than scientists previously realized, a study in Journal of Reptiles & Amphibians concluded.

WATCH: Burmese python swallows 77-pound white-tailed deer Florida’s invasive snakes can eat bigger prey than scientists previously realized, a study in Journal of Reptiles & Amphibians concluded.

Researchers at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida in Naples have documented a Burmese python eating a white-tailed deer that weighs more than it does.

A Burmese python's eyes were bigger than its stomach (literally) when it decided to attack and swallow a white-tailed deer whole.

A Burmese python in the Everglades with a penchant for venison gulped down three whole deer — one doe and two fawns — before wildlife officials captured and euthanized it, a new study reveals ...

The python was 31.5 pounds and the deer was 35 pounds; 111% of the python’s mass. The findings will be published in the March 2018 issue of the Herpetological Review.